Angella Katatumba


Angella Katatumba is a Ugandan Grade A vocal singer, philanthropist, diplomat and business woman. According to A&R practitioner Bryan Morel Muhumuza, Katatumba is endowed with a distinctive alto voice, vocal power and huge octave counts. It is a classification shared with only United States singers Toni Braxton and Jennifer Holliday.
She was recognized by United Nations in 2016 for her millennial inspiring music compositions and extremely unchallenged humanitarian work around Africa and surrounding continents.
Katatumba in 2005 also started to professionally record her music in Uganda. So far she has recorded two albums and is working on her third. Katatumba has made singing in English a priority since she started singing in Uganda; this is because she has always had the global market in mind and mostly because of her western upbringing.
The first album is titled Peace and has been globally recognised especially for the "For You Gulu" and "Mulago Yaffe" projects. She was one of the judges of the "airtel-trace music star" competition.

Early life and education

Her father was H.E Boney Mwebesa Katatumba and her mother is Ms. Gertrude Katatumba, the proprietor AFK Beauty Clinic Kabalagala.
Katatumba has a sister and seven brothers; Rosemary, Allan, Dennis, Rugiirwa, Colin, Ken, Ian and Jay.

She went to primary education in Uganda at the Katatumba Academy, from 1986 to 1994 then went to Belmont Senior Secondary School from 1994 to 1996 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she obtained a public relations diploma. She then went to Oxford Brookes University, England, where she got Bachelor of Arts degrees in economics and law from 1996 to 1999. Also at Oxford Brookes University, England she continued on to obtain a Masters in international management / public relations in 1999–2000.
After university in England, Katatumba moved to Chicago, Illinois, in the US, where she had several well-paying and prestigious jobs in the hospitality industry. She worked at Buca Di Beppo Restaurant from 2001–2002, Isaac Hayes Restaurant in 2002–2003 also in Chicago and at Majestic Star Casino from 2003–2004 in Chicago Illinois, US, where she was earning up to almost US$100,000 per year with bonuses.

When Katatumba moved back home to Uganda in 2005, she started working as the managing director at her father H.E Dr. Boney Katatumba's Hotel called Hotel Diplomate in Kampala, Uganda. Katatumba is currently the managing director of the hotel.

Awards and recognition

As listed by East Africa's renowned A&R practitioner and consultant Bryan Morel Muhumuza
VOA November 10, 2009 – Featured on VOA's In Focus regarding my success as a singer
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